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the great loss which we and the whole kingdom have sus- 

 tained in the death of an excellent King, who always thought 

 for his subjects, and was invariably ready to give up his own 

 pleasure and comfort in order to perform duties which must 

 often have been troublesome and irksome to him. I feel sure 

 that you will approve of the action of your executive body, 

 who deemed it to be only a suitable mark of respect to his 

 memory to postpone this meeting, which was originally fixed 

 for May 19th in the week in which the late King's funeral 

 was to take place. The list of those whom we have lost by 

 death in the last twelve months is shorter than that which 

 I laid before you last year with so much regret, but it includes 

 one of our very few remaining original members, Captain 

 J. W. T. Fyler, who was well known and popular in Dorset, 

 but did not take any active part in the work of our club, 

 though he occasionally attended its meetings. We have 

 also lost amongst our members Mr. R. S. Freame, who, though 

 not an original member, yet joined the club in 1878, only 

 three years after its foundation. The Museum possesses 

 some interesting remains of Ophthalmosaurus presented 

 by him with other fossils, and described by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell 

 in Vol. XI. of our Proceedings. Miss Emma Burt, who 

 joined in 1894, occasionally attended our meetings, and will 

 be remembered by many of us, as well as by myself, for the 

 kindly and hospitable welcome accorded to the club by her 

 father and herself at the meeting at Swanage in 1892. Colonel 

 Ferguson was elected in 1900, and the Rev. Nigel W. Gresley, 

 who was elected only last year, would, I think, from what I 

 have heard of him and seen of his interesting collections in 

 various branches, have made a valuable member of our 

 club. I should like also to refer to two former members. 

 The late Earl of Moray, when living in Dorset, took great 

 interest in the club, and was, like his brother, a keen observer 

 of natural history, especially in regard to animals and birds. 

 He left Dorset to reside in Scotland about 1894, and resigned 

 his membership some years afterwards. His brother, an 

 original member and vice-president of the club, succeeds him 



